• Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

  • Source: Scopus
20122024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

Elsa Yvanez is an archaeologist specialised in the textile production of the ancient Nile valley, in the chaine opératoire and economic significance of spinning and weaving, as well as in the use of textiles for clothing and burial. She is associate professor of textile archaeology at the Centre for Textile Research, Saxo institute, at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). From 2022, she is leading the Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress practices along the Middle Nile project with the support of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (ERC Starting Grant 101039416).

External positions

Postdoctoral research & PI, Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeoogy, University of Warsaw

20212022

Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Ancient Cultures in Denmark and the Mediterranean, The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

4 Mar 20183 Mar 2020

Doctoral researcher, SFDAS. Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan

20092010

Doctoral student, Universite Lille 3 - Charles de Gaule

20092015

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Egyptology
  • Textiles
  • Archaeology
  • Sudan
  • Nubia
  • Material Culture
  • Cultural identity
  • Burial practices

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